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Genesis 11:9

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

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Genesis 11:9

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

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1 Nephi 1 — Lehi's Vision and the Tender Mercies of the Lord
1 Nephi 8 — The Tree, the Rod, and the Building — Two Geographies of the Soul
1 Nephi 11 — The Condescension of God and the Catechetical Tree
2 Nephi 23 — Isaiah 13 — The Burden of Babylon, the Day of the Lord, the Sanctified Ones
2 Nephi 24 — Isaiah 14 — Israel Restored, the Taunt-Song over Babylon's King, Lucifer Fallen from Heaven
Alma 31 — The Rameumptom — Worship Turned Inside Out, and the Prayer of a Sorrowing Heart
Ether 1 — From the Great Tower — Moroni Opens the Jaredite Record, and a Brother's Prayer Against the Confounding
Ether 2 — Serve the God of the Land — The Journey, the Barges, and the Decree Upon the Choice Land
Helaman 6 — The Great Reversal — When the Lamanites Surpassed the Nephites
Mosiah 11 — King Noah and the First Cry of Abinadi — A King Whose Heart Is Set on Riches, a Prophet Who Comes Among the People to Say Repent or Be Brought Into Bondage
Mosiah 19 — Noah Burned With Fire — Abinadi's Prophecy Fulfilled, the Colony's Tribute Begins, and the Priests Vanish into the Wilderness
Omni 1 — Omni — Five Voices on a Closing Plate, Mosiah's Flight to Zarahemla, the Mulekites Found, and the Stone of Coriantumr
Doctrine and Covenants 1 — The Lord's Preface to His Own Book
Doctrine and Covenants 133 — Go Ye Out from Babylon
Abraham 1 — The Records of the Fathers — Olishem's Altar, the Rescuing Angel, and the Priesthood of the Fathers

Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge via openbible.info (CC BY) and from this project’s own chapter essays. Read Genesis 11:9 in context.